In the wake of a foiled terrorist attack in Canada, recent comments have offered a fascinating insightinto mindset of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Now is not the time to “commit sociology,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday in the wake of a foiled terrorist… Read More ›
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Ring the alarm! The sound of crisis: from ‘language games’ to… ‘politricks’
(…continuing from last month’s post) I To suggest that language may appear as a problem for a country that is teetering on the edge of financial, moral and political collapse, could be easily mistaken for virtually inviting a debt-ridden population… Read More ›
#Britsoc13 and Sociology’s problem of shortsightedness
Two years ago in April it was a beautifully warm and sunny Spring. I was wearing sunglasses and sandals as I lazed in the sun on the grass in the LSE campus at my first attendance to the British Sociological conference. Back… Read More ›
The task of Sociology in an age of austerity? Reflecting on #BritSoc13
The task of Sociology in an age of austerity is to occupy public debate and make inequality matter #BritSoc13 — Socio Imagination (@Soc_Imagination) April 3, 2013 This is a tweeted paraphrase of how BSA president John Holmwood described the task… Read More ›
The Future of Sociology
“The Future of Sociology” on Bundlr
How will sociology cope with digital data? An interview with David Beer
Why should sociologists care about the ‘digital’? What is ‘digital by-product data’? Why is it sociologically interesting? How can sociologists cope with digital data? How will digital data shape sociological practice? To find out more about his work, see David’s… Read More ›
Sociology and the Global Economic Crisis
Sociology and the Global Economic Crisis Special Issue Call for Papers Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2013 Editorial Team: Ana C. Dinerstein (University of Bath), Gregory Schwartz (University of Bath) and Graham Taylor (University of the West of England) We… Read More ›
Introducing a special feature: the ‘Sociologists of Crisis’ series
I Sociology and crisis often appear linked together, trapped in each other’s embrace sometimes as ‘intimate bedfellows’ and sometimes as an ‘odd couple’ too. What binds the one to the other is the very nature of their unusual relationship which,… Read More ›
The US sociology job market in 2012
As the year draws to a close, let’s have a look at the sociology job market across in the USA in 2012. Neal at Scatterplot have made a crude but very helpful visualisation of the decreasing number of jobs available for sociologists… Read More ›
Sociologists also have fun
A glimpse into the sociology student culture in Germany… Here is how sociology students at the Humboldt University in Berlin advertised their first semester party a few days ago:
New collaborative labour history project
LabourStart, an internation news and campaigning website for trade unionists, has launched a new collaborative project and is asking labour history enthusiasts to help! They want to produce a ‘Today in Labour History’ calendar that can be added as a widget… Read More ›
The Accidental Sociologist is having a bit of an identity crisis….
There’s a moment in Heart of Darkness when, Kurtz, at the instance of his death, cries ‘The horror! The horror!’ The terror, madness and awful spectre of what has been and what is yet to come lie before him and… Read More ›
An early review of the Sociological Imagination
“Imagine a burly cowpuncher on the long, slow ride from the Panhandle of Texas to Columbia University, carrying in his saddle-bag some books which he reads with absorption while his horse trots along. Imagine that among the books are some… Read More ›
C. Wright Mills’ Pragmatism
Often when speaking of post-war developments in pragmatism, many people tend to focus on the philosophy of the latter Wittgenstein or Rorty. However, such an exclusive focus tends to eclipse other notable contributions. In Cornel West’s genealogy of pragmatism, C…. Read More ›
Call for Micro Podcasts
Over the last couple of years we’ve hosted a lot of podcasts on Sociological Imagination. However thus far all of them have been produced by us. We’d like to host some by you as well! Specifically micro podcasts on any… Read More ›
Call for Micro Podcasts
Over the last couple of years we’ve hosted a lot of podcasts on Sociological Imagination. However thus far all of them have been produced by us. We’d like to host some by you as well! Specifically micro podcasts on any… Read More ›
The Accidental Sociologist
This is The Accidental Sociologist – a place in which I will be holding court on the wonderful myriad of ways in which getting somewhere entirely by happenstance can result in great things. The column has its origins in a… Read More ›
Accidental sociologists
Today I stumbled across an interesting biographical account by Sarah Burton, sociology postgraduate researcher, entitled The Accidental Sociologist. Sarah writes that she – as, it seems, a great many other sociologists – ended up in sociology ‘by chance’. She wonders… Read More ›
Call for Micro Podcasts
Over the last couple of years we’ve hosted a lot of podcasts on Sociological Imagination. However thus far all of them have been produced by us. We’d like to host some by you as well! Specifically micro podcasts on any… Read More ›
The crisis of empirical sociology: against defeatism and rethinking the public role of the qualitative researcher
As Savage and Burrows (2007: 894) point out, the popularity of the in depth interview in British sociology stems from an intellectual reaction to the excesses of Parsonian functionalism: responding to talk of reference groups, norms and values with the valorization of intensely ideographic… Read More ›
The Future of Sociology
“Sociology is a discipline that has to be ‘achieved’, or continually re-invented, in new circumstances.” – John Holmwood
Experiencing sociology’s midlife crisis?
Is it possible for an academic discipline to experience a midlife crisis? The recent exchange in the British Journal of Sociology on ‘sociology’s misfortune’ (Holmwood, 2010; Savage, 2010a; Rosenfeld, 2010) was just the most recent of a raft of work… Read More ›